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Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound Hardcover - 2015

by Leah Culligan Flack


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This comparative study crosses multiple cultures, traditions, genres, and languages in order to explore the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing. It shows how and why the Homeric epics served both modernist formal experimentation, including Pound's poetics of the fragment and Joyce's sprawling epic novel, and sociopolitical critiques, including H.D.'s analyses of the cultural origins of twentieth-century wars and Mandelstam's poetic defiance of the totalitarian Stalinist regime. The book counters a long critical tradition that has recruited Homer to consolidate, champion and, more recently, chastise an elitist, masculine modernist canon. Departing from the tradition of reading these texts in isolation as mythic engagements with the Homeric epics, Leah Flack argues that ongoing dialogues with Homer helped these writers to mount their distinct visions of a cosmopolitan post-war culture that would include them as artists working on the margins of the Western literary tradition.

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  • Title Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound
  • Author Leah Culligan Flack
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2015. 248p. Hardback. Series: Classics after Antiquity. This comparative study crosses multiple cultures
  • Date 2015-09-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781107108035 / 1107108039
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.35 x 6.1 x 0.74 in (23.75 x 15.49 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature, Modern - History and criticism, Homer - Influence
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015014544
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.04

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